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RE: What tech is making the most impact in healthcare? Siemens' Luis Castillo weighs in
Posted by IMWeira
5th Aug 2010
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RE: What tech is making the most impact in healthcare? Siemens' Luis Castillo weighs in
...and read the article of too high radiation caused by the Siemens
x-ray machines in stroke patients. NYTimes had an article about
that. Of Siemens denied all charges. Healthcare will only get better
when individuals and companies take the responsibility, and we drop
the tendency to sue so quickly. Errors will be made, but one has to
live up to what one does. Death is inevitable.
x-ray machines in stroke patients. NYTimes had an article about
that. Of Siemens denied all charges. Healthcare will only get better
when individuals and companies take the responsibility, and we drop
the tendency to sue so quickly. Errors will be made, but one has to
live up to what one does. Death is inevitable.
Posted by jackvandijk
5th Aug 2010
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RE: What tech is making the most impact in healthcare? Siemens' Luis Castillo weighs in
Luis ceems to be on track with applying technology to healthcare. The more checks and balances built into the healthcare system th better the outcome for the patient, hospital and doctors. This is so important because the heathcare providers are loaded with enough patients they can not spend the time to research each thing the have to do to avoid mistakes. Keep up this important work Luis.
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5th Aug 2010
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RE: What tech is making the most impact in healthcare? Siemens' Luis Castillo weighs in
In addition to technology providing useful clinical information during the care encounter, timely patient educational solutions and real time tracking applications are other technologies that "stay out of the way during clinician care". The simple checklist concept, as Dr. Gawande showed in his book "The Checklist Manifesto - How to Get Things Right", should be integrated into any technologies being deployed.
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5th Aug 2010
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RE: What tech is making the most impact in healthcare? Siemens' Luis Castillo weighs in
Folks, I was a critical care specialist for 43 years. From the day we first started using balloon pumps and holding patients in recovery rooms because they had the most attentive nurses.
What we need are very smart, very attentive and dedicated health care providers. At one time smart women had a choice between nurse and teacher. Now those people are doctors and professors.
That is a problem. Nurses are the first line of defense and protection for all the problems of health care. The doctors spend a little time in the hospital or with the patient in his office but if you have a heart attack and need resuscitating at 3 am it is the nurses who are going to bail you out. They need to be top notch and nothing less.
I see two levels of RN's developing and it is going to cause massive problems if the people who are educating them do not figure out how to heal the rift. Perhaps the 2 year grad can begin his or her practice in the outpatient clinics while heading back for the other two years of schooling. I don't know how they will solve it but the responsibilities of critical care, and all patient care is critical, requires more than a two year degree.
What we need are very smart, very attentive and dedicated health care providers. At one time smart women had a choice between nurse and teacher. Now those people are doctors and professors.
That is a problem. Nurses are the first line of defense and protection for all the problems of health care. The doctors spend a little time in the hospital or with the patient in his office but if you have a heart attack and need resuscitating at 3 am it is the nurses who are going to bail you out. They need to be top notch and nothing less.
I see two levels of RN's developing and it is going to cause massive problems if the people who are educating them do not figure out how to heal the rift. Perhaps the 2 year grad can begin his or her practice in the outpatient clinics while heading back for the other two years of schooling. I don't know how they will solve it but the responsibilities of critical care, and all patient care is critical, requires more than a two year degree.
Posted by IMWeira
5th Aug 2010